skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
whole hearted agree.

additional reminder that fb-messenger, whatsapp, imessage and probably a lot others started out as xmpp forks/dialects and even this was not enough to save us from the corporates.
This is simply your own bias showing through.

Yes. And your post is your bias showing through. That's OK though. That's how opinions work. A post on HN that isn't a strict statement of fact is always going to be affected by the posters biases. Discussion forums simply couldn't work otherwise.

Saying someone is biased is not a damning indictment of how terrible they are. It just means they've been affected by, and formed opinions based on, what has happened to them.

It's also ridiculous to state that a crash wouldn't impact their business.

If you just ignore the "significantly" bit, sure.
And you probably haven't seen a hurricane. Or snow for that matter.
MAX is not the only option to achieve fuel efficiency. In fact, MAX is the failed answer from Boeing to the fuel efficiency problem.

Airbus has NEO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A320neo_family

"After a year in service, Lufthansa confirmed the 20% efficiency gain per passenger with up to 180 seats, along with reduced noise and CO₂ emissions.[26] Operators confirm the 15% per seat fuel-burn savings even counterbalanced by the added weight on short sectors, which can rise to 16–17% on longer routes and to 20% or more for Lufthansa with 180 passengers up from 168 with two more seat rows"
It's just not the financial system, though, it's our entire societies that are designed with growth in mind. It's obvious we need some kind of alternative way to solve this, but getting from here to there isn't something one just does.
To be fair, people were speaking German for hundreds of years without any formal education in grammar.

But the key point is that, while it is POSSIBLE to learn a language this way, it is definitely more efficient with some formal training as well, until you can develop the "ear" for it.
Here's one breakdown:

https://uberdriverlondon.co.uk/is-it-worth-driving-for-uber-...

I think the interesting number there is 23 000 GBP/year, which is effectively the cost to Uber of having a human driver for one car operating 60 hours per week.

If a computer can drive a car for 60 hours a week, it saves money for Uber if the amortized cost is less than 23 000 GBP/yr.

If a computer can drive a car for more than 60 hours a week, it saves money even if it costs more than 23 000 GBP/yr, although i don't think it's linear - demand is concentrated at a few times of day, so one car on the road 24 hours a day is not equivalent o four cars on the road for six hours each.
>What makes lidar for use in self-driving that expensive? I have a robot-vacuum with a lidar that wasn't all that expensive.

Waymo says it cost $75,000 for the lidar in one car a decade ago, and in 2019 they said they got the cost down to $7,500. So at the time Tesla decided to forgo lidar the costs were certainly very high. I'm guessing the range in your vacuum is multiple orders of magnitude less than a car.

Waymo must have been betting costs would drastically fall over time. No idea if it's a lot less than 7500 now.
> as I remember IBM mainframes have had support for Aix/Linux guests for a while now

IBM VM has supported Linux guests ever since Linux was first ported to IBM mainframes, circa 1999-2000. Indeed, it is quite likely the initial port was done using VM.

IBM offered two versions of AIX on mainframes, AIX/370 in 1998 and AIX/ESA in 1991. However, how much code did these have in common with AIX on RS/6000? In the later case, very little – AIX/ESA is actually a port of the Mach kernel based OSF/1 to IBM mainframes, with little or no code shared with RS/6000 AIX (which contemporary AIX descends from). It actually had more in common with Digital/Compaq/HP's discontinued Tru64 UNIX (which is another OSF/1 derivative) than with AIX on RT-PC / POWER. I get the impression that AIX/370 had little or no code in common with RS/6000 AIX either – it was developed by Locus Computer Corporation – but I don't know enough about it to be sure about that. Neither AIX/370 or AIX/ESA ever saw any great adoption – both were discontinued in the 1990s, they were replaced by MVS OpenEdition (later OS/390 OpenEdition, and now z/OS Unix System Services) and also later on also by Linux.
This seems like a nice service, but I cannot make it generate a CV for me with some dummy data.

Here's a screenshot of what I entered: https://share.getcloudapp.com/5zuAZmgX
The statistics, based on https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-uber-driv...

> Uber drivers typically collect $24.77 per hour

> From that, Uber takes $8.33 in commissions and fees

> Vehicle expenses like gas and maintenance cost drivers about $4.87 per hour

> That leaves drivers with $11.77 per hour

Now, the maintenance and amortization will be higher for autonomous vehicles. Somebody will need to clean these vehicles, scrape the ice off, refuel, monitor them, deal with anomalies and false alarms, etc - all of which is now taken care of by the driver. Autonomous vehicles will likely end up being cheaper, but it's not as clear cut.
Bugs in humans let them do that too: "The US NHTSA estimates 16,000 accidents per year in USA, when drivers intend to apply the brake but mistakenly apply the accelerator."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration
You can solve national problems at the cuty/state level. Trying just makes them worse.
To be honest that's their default position in every crash.
> My mental framework suggests we should optimize for addressing maximal number of deaths, but we rarely make that choice.

Who says we aren't?

Modern cars have much, much better passive safety systems and active safety systems are light years of what was available before, and improving rapidly.

One random example: I have a Volvo V40 and I can barely see around the A pillar. And I see this in all modern cars. I don't remember feeling the same way about cars from 20-30 years ago. I'm quite confident that if the V40 would roll over, even at somewhat high speed, my chances of getting out relatively unscathed would be better than even those in a sports car from, say, 30 years ago.
In a pragmatic, level headed world, we could stop wearing masks once everyone above the age of 50 or so is vaccinated, as the risk of death and hospitalization for under 50s is dramatically lower, to the point where death by anything else is significantly higher.

In the shrill world of the media, point-scoring politicians, and people that believe we live in some kind of movie world where we can save everyone from everything, probably when everyone is vaccinated.
Lately, I am using exercise video games, such as "ringfit adventure" and "fitness boxing", with very good results.
I couldn't agree more, especially with the latter part. I've worked on action recognition with I3D for over a year now, and found that seemingly equivalent implementations in Keras, TensorFlow 2 or PyTorch will produce wildly different results. Worse yet, I found a bunch of papers that will claim SOTA results compared against one of those non-original implementations with just a few percentage-point differences. It makes no sense! It took me hundreds of hours to hunt down the differences between how these frameworks implement their layers before I could come even close to the expected accuracy...
Safety culture is an important topic too, but this article is about something else: technology paths.
Ah yes, lets do nothing. Government is in a position to sort lots of things, and it needs money to do it.
I dunno, there's some jobs you see from the inside you think "wow, this is a disaster" but from the outside it looks fine because that's what the company projects. (Anecdotally, a friend of mine gets horror stories from his brother, who's a mechanic with a very large airline)
> I agree with you that children have been silent victims of schoolteachers' refusal to do in-person school

What should a schoolteacher do then, die? I'm not going to ask them to do that.

They should be put in one of the top priority categories for vaccination, and THEN we can expect them to go in classrooms (but we shouldn't be doing that anyway unless all kids are also vaccinated - otherwise they will keep the virus in circulation. They tend to have extremely mild or completely asymptomatic cases, but they DO catch it and spread it further)
Nothing scary happens in the next 60 seconds. The car would obviously not go into the opposite lane if there was traffic, and given a few more seconds it would return to the right shoulder. The driver is jumpy and taking over before it has time to correct anything.
Yes, the government created yet another situation where it does not matter what happens on the market the company does not fail. This is why capitalism does not work as people think it works, governments actively circumventing the basic rules of markets.
The sites you mention seem oriented towards discovering what any given plane currently in air is, and who operates it.

What GP is talking about is a site that lists airlines operating that particular plane. A simple, dedicated interface. Drop in an airline, get a probability estimate you'll be flying on a 737 MAX. Or, better, drop an airline, start/stop points and time, get an answer whether you'll be flying 737 MAX.

EDIT: https://airlinelist.com/ has a feature I was thinking about, though not prominently visible. There's a button "No 737 MAX in fleet", which you can use as a filter. So a dedicated website could be just that, with this filter always on.
The culture of the people who make up these companies don't want to let anyone know what happened or let them appeal it, because they "know better" and are "in agreement" with unspoken rules such that adjudication would be "a waste of time." It's all about arrogance and fascist behavior towards users in the name of expediency and risk management. Unless someone is a celebrity, they're squished like a cockroach if they stumble into the "light" of algorithms or human review.
The blind man can hear a color described, but that is not very useful for something that is visual.

The person born in the equator can have the feeling of snow described and by walking into a walk in freezer they can understand cold, they probably already understand water, examples can be made to them. Furthermore they can see videos of major snowstorms from other places.

Thus there are different levels of real between the color for the blind man, and the snow for the person born in the equator.
And if you look at deaths by drowning it dwarfs those numbers. Though people get worked up with terrorism, plane crashes and rare diseases.
1. True, EVs are more expensive and do need government subsidies to make up the difference

2. If you're measuring range as "don't stop at all, I'll pee in a bottle" range, then yes.

A better measurement would be "is the range enough for my normal daily use", then the answer is yes for a large number of people. Not everyone of course, some people actually _need_ to drive long distances daily without the ability to recharge. For those people an ICE car is the only valid option for at least a good 5 years.

3. The first thing you should forget is the "gas station" mentality, there shouldn't be any need to drive to a specific "charging station" and wait for 45 minutes doing nothing for the car to charge.

Recharging should always be done at home overnight (10+ hours of charge time, low power requirement), or during normal daily activities (work, shopping).

Quick recharges should only be needed if you're driving more in a day than the car's maximum range is. Road trips and traveling long distances mostly.

4. True, electric cars are sold as fast as they can be churned off the production line. The most popular ones have long queues.
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None of your examples are unique to social networks. There are many ways to keep in touch with people and many ways to gather information. These methods are usually superior in most respects too. What social media, like facebook, does do, though, is bundle it all together. It's like a supermarket.

But it goes beyond just being a supermarket. It has a unique selling point: the ability to signal. In my experience, the number of people who use social networks merely as email/news/entertainment replacements without succumbing to status signalling is very small.
Apparently they just try again:

"Each chip makes its own assessment of what the car should do next. The computer compares the two assessments, and if the chips agree, the car takes the action. If the chips disagree, the car just throws away that frame of video data and tries again, Venkataramanan said."
Are they actually safer?

"In cars, one person died per 5.5 million passenger hours traveled, versus one death per 6 million passenger hours in commercial airline flights-a slim difference at best!"

Also , I can't cross london by plane, so what do I do with that information?

This whole argument smells of whataboutism of sorts 'well if cars kill so many people we shouldn't give boeing such hard time for killing a few"

https://observer.com/1998/03/driving-versus-flying-the-debat...
Sounds to me like there isn't good product-market fit, and the founders think that reaching some 99.99% level of perfection will magically make everything fall into place.
How many people would use iMessage if it wasn't bundled with the phone ?
Since they rely on pre-mapping, that’s the equivalent of a carnival ride on rails and not really comparable to what Tesla is doing (unsupervised training on billions of unknown road miles).
Does Savitch's theorem apply here? If yes then you can have a strict bound in section 7.1.
That article is the same listicle from AirlineRatings shared by another poster below. AirlineRatings themselves are just a website, not any authority, but their own rating for Ryanair is equal the same "seven stars" they award to the top 10 in that list: https://www.airlineratings.com/ratings/ryanair/
This will be fun to spend time on ;p
On the radio the other day there was a car show and they were talking about costs for battery replacements (and then it was advised to replace board computer, managing the batteries too) for a Tesla, I was shocked by the costs. I don't recall the exact but he was 30k+ euro lighter. I was interested in a electric car, but interest dropped significantly after hearing that. Maybe I don't know enough about cars to compare to regular gas cars maintenance costs.
I've corrected a batch of HN comments below in this one post. Please upvote.

> I'd choose to fly on a 737 Max over any other plane, personally. Because no other plane in operation has ever received the amount of scrutiny the Max has.

That is a logical fallacy. It received scrutiny because it's misdesigned and miscertified. The corrections have not been done transparently. That doesn't inspire me at all. The outsourced software could be a whole can of worms on its own.

> Investigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor.

Yes, because it was using a single sensor instead of 2 or 3 as expected for a life-critical system. The sensor was also external to the plane, subject to impact by birds and ladders. Facepalm.

> Didn't they actually blame the pilots initially?

Yes. I can speak about Indonesia, which I am very familiar with. Indonesia has a poor safety record, both because of pilot performance and maintenance issues, so calling out Indonesia aviation safety is not "racist." The Indo NTSB ruled that pilots, maintenance and Boeing shared blame equally.

> Quantas has not had a fatality since 1951 (Ryanair was founded in 1984); so that cannot possibly be true.

I think the layman opinion of an airline being "safe" if there's no fatal accidents is silly, since it really depends on volume of flights, etc.

Qantas used nitrogen instead of supplemental oxygen on many flights, which would have resulted in many deaths in case of a depressurization. Also, QF32 (A380 uncontained engine failure) was a close one.

> do you think Boeing would be able to survive

Yes, because it's a defense contractor, is USA's largest exporter and makes half the world's airliners, which Airbus can't build incrementally. Airline crashes do close airlines, though.

> anyone got any details of what changes Boeing needs to make in order to fly a 737Max again ?

The complexity of v1 was too much to fix until v2. Also, nobody has talked about their outsourced flight control software yet. MCAS involves too many domains for many people to wrap their heads around (hardware, software, FARs, compliance, flight manual, training, aerodynamics, cost.)

> The reason they were chasing fleet commonality is because it would massively reduce adoption costs for airlines by making expensive training for existing 737 pilots unnecessary.

Yes, but more specifically, Boeing promised Southwest $1 million per plane for pilot retraining. So a single Excel cell monitored by the executive suite drove the entire MCAS debacle. This story has not been fully told yet, although another accident will bring it to light.

Source: commercially-rated pilot, followed MCAS in detail. Predicted MCAS solution would take more than a year, and that v1 wasn't it.
My guess would be there is a plan for the US to bomb the TSMC factories in the event of China winning an extremely costly war against Taiwan. I’m not sure the US would actually come to Taiwan’s aid. I mean surely Taiwan has enough arms to destroy a very expensive chunk of Beijing and Shanghai in response to any invasion? Terrifying stuff...
> But the key point is that, while it is POSSIBLE to learn a language this way, it is definitely more efficient with some formal training as well, until you can develop the "ear" for it.

Agreed. This is the main point I was getting at.
Do we need a website isit737max.com? :) I would totally use it.
We have no idea if the scrutiny resulted in the plane actually being safe or if the agencies rubber stamped it yet again.
> I know multiple people that have died in car accidents.

Did they die because the car had issues or was it some other reason?
Tesla, Google et all are not little startups but huge corps with plenty of cash and the ear of any politician or CEO. If they can't get a policy enacted, maybe there's a reason for it.
> Rust is not just trendy. It is inherently more powerful when it comes to express and check invariants.

It's also massively complicated and the language is still in flux as it hasn't yet matured. Which is fine for hobby web dev projects but NOT what you want to base the long term future of any business on.

> I had thought that after decades of buggy dynamic code, people have come around to value that.

Get a grip. Dynamic code doesn't have to be any more buggy if you have the right developers and the right tool chains. Rust currently benefits from being a relatively niche language but once it's mainstream you can expect similar buggy code as less competent developers are forced into using it. Rust might have a fantastic compiler at catching specific bug types, but lets remember that it's not going to save you against any or all bugs. Claiming otherwise is, at best, massively ignorant.

But even assuming your biased opinion was fact, it's still not as if Rust is the only language out there that covers the non-dynamic market space. In fact Rust is one of the least mature languages in that area and particularly when it comes to web development. This isn't a subjective point either, try spending a few years building and supporting applications in other languages and compare that to Rust. I have done just that and while Rust will get there, it isn't there yet.

> Comparing go and rust, I see two statically compiled languages with many different and interesting features

Yes, one has been built with web development in mind and has been mature in that space for a decade. The other is Rust.

> But one has a strong type system and the other has a trivial one. I'd choose the strong one for any new project that I expect to maintain for years to come.

Well then you'd be choosing Rust for a stupid reason. If you're worried about maintaining something for years to come then you want API stability above all else. Rust cannot yet offer you that. C#, Java and Go are all better choices. Heck, even LISP, Haskell, etc would be better choices than current Rust.

Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for Rust designers and the language itself. But some of the fanboyism demonstrated in your comments are ridiculous. Rust isn't ready for the kind of web development you're advocating for it. It also isn't going to magically save you from every known bug (and actually Go's compiler warning are pretty damn good too by the way). I'm sure one day Rust will be a solid option but not today.
Ryanair only fly the 737 Type Rating, so the A320neo wasn't a viable option for them.
For now, that’s kind of the goal here...
Why would your friends require you to pay them? You set your own fees. What’s your attention worth?
This is a dangerous equivocation of the guilty with the innocent, and throws away completely the notion of "Better X Guilty Persons Escape than that One Innocent Suffer."

Do schools or parents not teach philosophy or ethics to these FAANG employees?
Loon, the internet balloons project, is being discontinued
It’s horrible, but there’s also many other things to fix
As opposed to... what? Democracy?

You think that democracies are long-term efficient?

Democracies don’t have corruption?

Democracies don’t become self-serving?

I mean, I prefer to live in a democracy because of individual freedoms but it’s not terribly well-organized.
Considering the way delta chat chat works; that doesn’t matter much. Approximately nobody has that client installed. And SMTP is not ideal for these things.
Blackout only occurs in a selected province due to strong export demands and early winter which increase electric heaters.
> In one website's subjective ranking.

It may be somewhat subjective, and it is probably hard to compare the many airlines that have had no fatalities or serious accidents (reported at least) in the last 30-40 years; like Ryanair has.

But you said Ryanair were the safest of any airline (by far), which seems strange as there are many airlines with similar safety records as Ryanair. Why should they rank above everyone else?

In the end the customers will decide, but hopefully we can avoid another load of customers hitting the ground in MAX (or 8) crash.
How do you measure qualitative innovation? If research is a good measure of innovation, China is only second to the US in AI research, for example.

If innovation is measured by consumer adoption of new technology, TikTok is the first major AI-first consumer application. In other markets too, China has made major innovations in the consumer space that have not caught up in the West yet - ecommerce, fintech, consumer goods and more. None of these are top-down CCP mandated innovations.
>You don't want to share a road with me when you could share it with a Tesla FSD.

This might be irrational, but I'd rather be killed by a human than killed by a computer made by a company that's run by a gung-ho serial bullshitter. That would somehow suck worse.
gold trading volumes have doubled between 2018 and 2019.

It haven' t made it a replacement for fiat currencies in the following 2 years.

EVs are still too expensive for the majority of people that _need_ to buy a car and their growth will put pressure on the charging infrastructure, which is insufficient right now or inexistent in large areas all over the World, for example here in Italy outside of the 2-3 larger cities, owning a 100% EV is a luxury.

I'm also not sure production capacity can sustain that kind of growth in the near future.

In Europe regulations about emissions are driving up the EV sales for company fleets, but the overall car sales are going down. There are 40 million registered cars in Italy and in Q4 2020 only 8.5 thousands were new electric cars.

We have a long way before EVs replace ICEs.